"The VISION"
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
-from the Youth of the 24/7 Prayer Movement - England.
>This man comes up to me and he says
>what's the vision
>what's the big idea
>i open my mouth and the words come out like this
>the vision
>the vision is Jesus
>dangerously obsessively undeniably Jesus
>the vision is an army of young people
>you see bones
>i see an army
>and they are free from materialism
>they laugh at 9 to 5 little prisons
>they could eat caviar on monday and crust on tuesday
>they wouldn't even notice!!!!
>they know the meaning of the Matrix
>they write their address in pencil
>they are mobile like the wind
>they belong to the nations
>they need no passport
>they are free
>yet they are slaves of the dirty
>and hurting and dying
>what is the vision?
>the vision is holiness that hurts the eyes
>it makes children laugh and adults angry
>it gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the
>stars
>it scorns the good and strains for the best
>it is dangeriously pure
>light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation
>it loves people away from their satan games, their suicide leaps
>this is an army that will lay down their lives for the cause
>a million times a day
>its soldiers choose to lose that they might win the great
>'well done faithful sons and daughters'
>such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as they are on Sunday
>night
>they don't need fame from names
>instead they grin upwards and hear the heavenly crowd chanting again
>and again and again:
>COME ON!!!!!!
>and this is the sound of the underground
>the whisper of history in the making
>foundations shaking
>revolutionaries dreaming once again
>mystery is scheming in whispers
>conspiracy is breathing
>this is the sound of the underground
>and the army is disciplined
>young people who beat their bodies into submission
>every soldier would take a bullet for the cause
>for me to live is christ and to die is gain
>sacrifice fuels the fire of victory
>winners, martyrs
>who can stop them
>can hormones hold them back? can fear stop them? can failure
>succeed? can death kill them?
>and the generation prays like a dying man
>with tongues beyond talking
>with warrior cries with sulfuric tears
>waiting watching
>24/7 365
>whatever it takes
>that they will give
>shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide
>laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs
>laughing at labels, fasting essentials!
>the advertisers cannot mold them!
>Hollywood cannot hold them!
>peer pressure is powerless to shake their resolve!
>will they surrender their IMAGE!!!!!!! or their popularity?
>THEY WOULD SURRENDER THEIR LIVES!
>They pray as if it ALL DEPENDS ON GOD!
>And they LIVE as though it all depends on them.
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